Word: schoolboys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Brown, Garden-Arena entrepreneur, announced at the final Hockey Writers Luncheon that the ice would be taken out of the St. Botolpn Street Ice Palace and replaced by a permanent basketball floor. As a result, the Boston Garden will have to bear the entire load of professional, college, and schoolboy hockey in the Metropolitan area beginning next season. Although their big games (B.C.-B.U., and Harvard vs. other Pentagonal League teams) will still take place in the North Station refrigerator, local colleges will have to scare up their own practice ice as a result of Brown's move...
John Howard Davies somehow manages to keep his portrayal of Tom from falling into the superficial cliches of the usual schoolboy hero, and Robert Newton saves Thomas Arnold from becoming the well-known, stock Kindly Schoolmaster...
...Gladstone and Asquith, had been the training ground of hundreds of M.P.s, had heard the best brains of Britain in its debates. But never had it seen anyone rise in debate garbed in a U.S. lumberjacket and red baseball cap, and self-billed as "the original public schoolboy-from the public schools of Morrison, Illinois...
Burrileville's Huskies are perennial Rhode Island state schoolboy champions and New England Tourney finalists, this being their fifth successive title...
...many respects like a high-school football captain drafted willy-nilly as president of the student council and editor of the school paper. John Ford still treats him as a clumsy sophomore and bawls him out unmercifully when they work together. Wayne takes it like a scolded schoolboy and murmurs, "Sorry, Coach," with abject hero-worship. But in other quarters Duke himself is the worshiped hero. Sometimes he finds the situation confusing...